Airport Security
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Airport Security
From the National Review, July 15th:
"The 'random screening' charade at airport departure gates was merely absurd for a while, and we all had fun trading stories about 70-year-old nuns being strip-searched. It is no longer possible to laugh at this foolishness. Since it is not practicable to screen everyone, screening should be restricted to persons who have some measurable probability of being hijackers. At an utter minumum, the valuable time of the screeners ought not to be wasted on people whose probability of being hijackers is absolutely zero. Ex-vice presidents to the United States, for example. Boarding a flight to Milwaukee at Reagan National Airport, AL Gore was pulled out of line for the full treatment. Then, proceeding from Milwaukee to New York the next day, the ex-VPOTUS was picked out and searched yet again. 'He was more than happy, as all Americans are in these troubled times, to cooperate,' said a Gore aide. If that is true, then Gore is unfit for public office. Nobody should be happy with this insanity. Anyone who can protest it to any effect should do so, loudly and publicly."
"The 'random screening' charade at airport departure gates was merely absurd for a while, and we all had fun trading stories about 70-year-old nuns being strip-searched. It is no longer possible to laugh at this foolishness. Since it is not practicable to screen everyone, screening should be restricted to persons who have some measurable probability of being hijackers. At an utter minumum, the valuable time of the screeners ought not to be wasted on people whose probability of being hijackers is absolutely zero. Ex-vice presidents to the United States, for example. Boarding a flight to Milwaukee at Reagan National Airport, AL Gore was pulled out of line for the full treatment. Then, proceeding from Milwaukee to New York the next day, the ex-VPOTUS was picked out and searched yet again. 'He was more than happy, as all Americans are in these troubled times, to cooperate,' said a Gore aide. If that is true, then Gore is unfit for public office. Nobody should be happy with this insanity. Anyone who can protest it to any effect should do so, loudly and publicly."
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And then get disciplined, demoted, fined and generally shafted by your management for the next 12-24 months, as they need a scapegoat to show that they are indeed doing their bit, post 9/11 .
If you want to start that one then look at the previous post on on Sikhs Kirpans at LHR .
I rest my case!
If you want to start that one then look at the previous post on on Sikhs Kirpans at LHR .
I rest my case!
